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Hildred: I went through your photos twice, enjoying them. Although we are pleased to have chosen a warmer place for our retirement years, the scenes of snow in winter are very nostalgic.I'm interested that you have bluejays at your feeder. Bluejays and cardinals didn't appear in Wyoming and I have assumed their habitat was limited to east of the Rockies.Paperwhites and amaryllis were part of my winters for many years--I'm lacking room for them in this tiny house.I often thought the scent of the paperwhites was nearly over-whelming, but what joy to watch the green shoots stretch up and the buds form.Blessings to you on your snowy Christmas week.

The Stellars Jay is the Provincial Bird of British Columbia, - we don't see too many of them around here, but they are evidently quite populous in the rest of the province. Bright and cheeky they call them!!!

Vancouver and the Depression Years
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September 17th, 2012
The Depression years of the 1930's have been documented in many places, so
it is not necessary to repeat all of its ramifications now,...

4 years ago

The rose, the rose

O, gather me the rose, the rose,

While yet in flower we find it,

For summer smiles, but summer goes,

And winter waits behind it!

For with the dream foregone, foregone,

The deed forborne for ever,

The worm, regret, will canker on,

And time will turn him never.

So well it were to love, my love,

And cheat of any laughter

The death beneath us and above,

The dark before and after.

The myrtle and the rose, the rose,

The sunshine and the swallow,

The dream that comes, the wish that goes,

The memories that follow!

William Henley

If I were to wish for anything

I should not wish for wealth and power,

but for the passionate sense of the potential.

For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Kierkegaard

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers our actions run as causes, and return to us as results.

Herman Melville

Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

Most of us aren't ever going to be rich or famous. Presumably, we have made our peace with that reality also, and have set ourselves to discovering what it is that we will do with the gifts God has given us. A joyful life is, quite simply, a life that has found that path. A life that knows why it is here. A life that knows what is worth everything and what is worth nothing at all.

Barbara Crafton

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Mark Twain

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

About Me

We lived at the back of our son's horse pasture and had a wonderful view of the Similkameen Valley. Then we
moved to town, and although we still lived in the same beautiful valley we saw it from a different perspective, and sometimes telephone wires get in the way.
Hildred writes Daybyday,
Charles wrote From the Back Pasture. He was writing at great urging from the family to record some of the stories of his life and his family memories.
We had reached the point in our lives where we had time to appreciate the beauty of each day and were happy we had the energy to enjoy it. In 2012 we celebrated our 67th wedding anniversary, but then I lost my darling husband when he fell and broke his hip, and did not recover from the resulting surgery. Life has changed for me considerably......
Off to the side - a Garden Diary to keep track of what happens Down the Garden Path.
And a Recollection Blog, to keep alive the memories of our families.